# Silkheart Records

Silkheart Records is a Swedish record company and label dedicated to improvised music and free jazz.
Lars-Olof Gustavsson and Keith Knox founded Silkheart in 1985. In 1991, Jimmy Johnson of Forced Exposure suggested that Silkheart "could easily be considered for the new ESP-Disk throne." The Penguin Guide to Jazz describes the four albums that Dennis González recorded for the label as "part of a determined effort to wrest creative initiative back from New York and the West Coast".$^{:513–514}$ Charles Brackeen (whom Silkheart's management and González$^{:513–514}$ had coaxed out of retirement) recorded three albums for Silkheart.$^{:159}$

## Releases

* 101 Dennis González New Dallas Quartet – Stefan
* 102 Steve Lacy Sextet – The Gleam
* 103 Steve Lacy Quartet – One Fell Swoop
* 104 Ahmed Abdullah Quartet – Liquid Magic
* 105 Charles Brackeen Quartet – Bannar
* 106 Dennis González New Dallas Sextet – Namesake
* 107 Michael Bisio Quartet – In Seattle
* 108 Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – Ancestral Song
* 109 Ahmed Abdullah – Ahmed Abdullah and the Solomonic Quintet
* 110 Charles Brackeen Quartet – Attainment
* 111 Charles Brackeen Quartet – Worshippers Come Nigh
* 112 Dennis González New Dallasorleanssippi – Debenge – Debenge
* 113 David S. Ware Trio – Passage to Music
* 114 Booker T. Williams – Go Tell It on the Mountain
* 115 Charles Gayle Quartet – Always Born
* 116 Charles Gayle Trio – Homeless
* 117 Charles Gayle Trio – Spirits Before
* 118 Charles Tyler + Brus Trio – Autumn in Paris
* 119 William Hooker Quartet – Lifeline
* 120 Other Dimensions in Music – Other Dimensions In Music
* 121 Denis Charles Triangle – Queen Mary
* 122 Rob Brown Trio – Breath Rhyme
* 123 William Hooker Ensemble – The Firmament Fury
* 124 Dennis González New Dallas Angeles – The Desert Wind
* 125 Joel Futterman Quartet – Vision in Time
* 126 Roscoe Mitchell + Brus Trio – After Fallen Leaves
* 127 David S. Ware Quartet – Great Bliss, Vol. 1
* 128 David S. Ware Quartet – Great Bliss, Vol. 2
* 129 Matthew Shipp Quartet – Points
* 130 Various artists – Spirit of New Jazz
* 131 Joel Futterman Trio – Berlin Images
* 132 Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble – South Side Street Songs
* 133 Jim Hobbs Trio – Babadita
* 134 Charles Gayle Quartet – Translations
* 135 Hal Russell & Joel Futterman Quartet – Naked Colours
* 136 Jim Hobbs Fully Celebrated Orchestra – Peace & Pig Grease
* 137 Charles Gayle Quartet – Raining Fire
* 138 Bob Ackerman Trio – Old & New Magic
* 139 Roy Campbell Pyramid – Communion
* 140 Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble – Chicago Now Vol. 1
* 141 Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble – Chicago Now Vol. 2
* 142 Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – 21st Century Union March
* 143 The Joel Futterman & Kidd Jordan Quintet – Nickelsdorf Konfrontation
* 144 Steve Lacy – 5 x Monk 5 x Lacy
* 145 David S. Ware Quartet – Oblations and Blessings
* 146 Andrew Cyrille – Richard Teitelbaum Duo – Double Clutch
* 147 William Hooker – Billy Bang Duo – Joy (Within)!
* 148 Assif Tsahar Trio – Ain Sof
* 149 AALY Trio + Ken Vandermark – Hidden in the Stomach
* 150 Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – Ka – Real
* 151 Borgmann / Morris / Charles Trio – The Last Concert – Dankeschön
* 152 Kidd Jordan Quartet – New Orleans Festival Suite
* 153 Heinz Geisser & Guerino Mazzola Duo – Folia / The Unam Concert
* 154 Heinz Geisser & Guerino Mazzola] Duo – Someday
* 155 Sirone Bang Ensemble – Configuration
* 156 Matt Lavelle Trio – Spiritual Power
* 157 Charles Gayle Quartet – Blue Shadows
* 158 Other Dimensions in Music featuring Fay Victor – Kaiso Stories